Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services

A Protocol Development Framework for SLA Negotiations in Cloud and Service Computing.- The Use of Provision Point Contracts for Improving Cloud Infrastructure Utilisation.- An Economic Agent Maximizing Cloud Provider Revenues under a Pay-as-you-Book Pricing Model.- Economic Co-allocation and Advance Reservation of Network and Computational Resources in Grids.- Revenue-Based Resource Management on Shared Clouds for Heterogenous Bursty Data Streams.- The ISQoS Grid Broker for Temporal and Budget Guarantees.- Let the Clouds Compute: Cost-Efficient Workload Distribution in Infrastructure Clouds.- A Declarative Recommender System for Cloud Infrastructure Services Selection.- Retrieving, Storing, Correlating and Distributing Information for Cloud Management.- On Local Separation of Processing and Storage in Infrastructure-as-a-Service.- Value Creation in IT Service Platforms through Two-Sided Network Effects.- Cheat-Proof Trust Model for Cloud Computing Markets.- Trust Factors for the Usage of Cloud Computing in Small and Medium.- Sized Craft Enterprises.- A Cost Analysis of Cloud Computing for Education.- Delivering Cloud Services with QoS Requirements: An Opportunity for ICT SMEs.- A Mixed-Methods Research Approach to Investigate the Transition from on-Premise to on-Demand Software Delivery.- Towards a Federated Cloud Ecosystem: Enabling Managed Cloud Service Consumption.- Business Models for Semantic Content Providers.